Philosophy for Non-philosophers [Hardcover]

In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser pennedPhilosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English,Philosophy for Non-philosophersconstitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser's own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of 'practice'.

Rather than a work of 'popular philosophy',Philosophy for Non-philosophersis a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser's thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since.Philosophy for Non-philosophersthus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser's seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and ??i??ek.

Louis Althusserwas a prominent French philosopher of the late twentieth century. His works include seminal writings on Marx, and the relation between post-war Marxist thought and other emerging discourses across the humanities (namely, structuralism). His works include,For MarxandReading Capital.

G. M. Goshgariantranslates fiction and philosophy from French, German and Armenian into English. He is the editor and translator of several volumes of Althusser's work, includingHow to Be a Marxist in Philosophy(Bloomsbury, 2017).

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Warren Montag
Note on the text by G.M. Goshgarian

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
1. What Non-philosophers Say
2. Philosophy and Religion
The Big Detour
3. Abstraction
4. Technical Abstraction and Scientific Abstraction
5. Philosophical Abslƒ…